State v. Pace

COOK, Justice.

Levi Pace, the defendant in a capital case pending in the Morgan Circuit Court, petitions for a writ of mandamus directing the trial court to allow Pace to have counsel of his choice, an attorney admitted to practice in another state. That attorney seeks to represent Pace, pro hac vice, at no expense to the State. We grant the petition and issue the writ.1

Pace was convicted of capital murder in 1993 and was sentenced to death. The Court of Criminal Appeals reversed the conviction and sentence, Pace v. State, 714 So.2d 320 (Ala.Crim.App.1996), and this Court affirmed the…